Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono, Hiroki Azuma

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono, Hiroki Azuma

200 pages first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy reference adventurous reflective slow-paced
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 In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial lone...

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